Bash – concatenate a bash alias

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Sample : to use Composer locally, I must write :

php composer.phar

After some locals installation of Composer, I want to alias it only "composer" but keeping absolute path with "pwd" command. I tried something like this in my .bashrc file :

alias composer='php ' . pwd . '/composer.phar'

Tested with this signs : ".", "+", ";", "&&" and “nothing” but none works.

And nothing found in Wikipedia article, official documentation or other stack question.

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You could add a subshell to your alias.

alias composer='php $(pwd)/composer.phar'

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Bash – How to Find a Rogue Alias Declaration

I would look in /etc/profile.d/ for the offending alias.

You could also do the following to find it:

grep -r '^alias COMMAND' /etc

This will recursively grep through files looking for a line beginning with alias COMMAND.

If all else fails, put this at the end of your ~/.bashrc

unalias COMMAND

Bash – How to Expand Alias in Non-Interactive Shell

From the bash(1) man page:

Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).

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